Name Bernard MacLaverty Role Writer | Movies Cal, Lamb, Elephant | |
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Born 14 September 1942 (age 82) ( 1942-09-14 ) Occupation Novelist, playwright, screenwriter, short story writer, librettist Nominations Man Booker Prize, BAFTA Award for Best Short Film Books Cal, Grace Notes, Secrets and other stories, Matters of Life & Death: An, The anatomy school Similar People John Lynch, Pat O'Connor, Hans‑Christian Oeser, Alan Clarke, Bill Morrison | ||
Bernard maclaverty creative minds at birmingham
Bernard MacLaverty (born 14 September 1942) is a Northern Irish writer of fiction. His novels include Lamb, Cal, Grace Notes and The Anatomy School. He has written five books of short stories.
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- Bernard maclaverty creative minds at birmingham
- Blackbird book club bernard maclaverty
- Biography
- Work
- List of published works
- References
Blackbird book club bernard maclaverty
Biography
MacLaverty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and educated at Holy Family Primary School in the Duncairn district and then at St Malachy's College. He worked as a medical laboratory technician and was a mature student at Queen's University Belfast. He lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children (Ciara, Claire, John, and Jude). He currently lives in Glasgow.
He was Writer-in-Residence at the Universities of Aberdeen, Liverpool John Moores, Augsburg and Iowa State.
Work
MacLaverty's Lamb is a novel about faith, relationships and ultimately, love; Cal is an examination of love in the midst of Irish violence. Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize, is about the conflict between a desire to compose and motherhood. The Anatomy School is a comic coming-of-age novel. He has also written five acclaimed collections of short stories, most of which are in his 'Collected Stories' (Cape 2013).
MacLaverty wrote a screenplay for Cal in 1984; Helen Mirren and John Lynch starred and Mark Knopfler composed the film soundtrack. He also adapted Lamb for the screen; Liam Neeson and Hugh O'Conor starred and Van Morrison composed the soundtrack.
He has written versions of his fiction for other media - radio plays, television plays, screenplays and libretti. In 2003 he wrote and directed a short film "Bye-Child" (BAFTA nominated for ‘Best Short Film’) and more recently wrote libretti for Scottish Opera’s Five:15 series - ‘The King’s Conjecture’ with music by Gareth Williams and 'The Letter' with music by Vitaly Khodosh. For Scottish Opera in 2012, and again with music by Gareth Williams, he wrote 'The Elephant Angel', an opera for schools which toured Scotland and Northern Ireland.